Shashank Joshi
The Lowy Institute
United Kingdom
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Novichok poisoning and the test for Britain
The difficulty for the UK now is in crafting a fresh response to the continued effects of Russia’s brazen attack. → Read More
Skripal: the weight of evidence
The alternatives to Russian culpability in the nerve agent attack strain credulity. → Read More
We will only be safe from Russian cyber attacks if they know we will retaliate
Digital attacks are a new form of warfare – and the perpetrators need to be in no doubt that if they go too far, the West will retaliate with the traditional kind → Read More
Tillerson doubles down on US-India partnership
Tillerson’s speech also signaled a significant hardening of US attitudes towards China's Belt and Road Initiative. → Read More
With an eye on Beijing, India and Japan double down
While the security architecture of Asia in some flux, the future of the India-Japan relationship is looking very healthy indeed. → Read More
How Trump’s New Approach to Pakistan Might Pan Out
Perhaps the most notable part of President Trump's new Afghanistan 'strategy' is its treatment of Pakistan, with Trump saying out loud what was once largely debated and threatened in... → Read More
How Trump’s new approach to Pakistan might pan out
On Pakistan, Trump has said out loud what has until now been largely debated and threatened in private. → Read More
Doklam: Paths ahead for India and China
The India-China standoff at the Doklam tri-junction area, now in its second month, is the most serious crisis between the two countries in thirty years. → Read More
Malabar 17 Exercise: The China Subtext
The annual Malabar naval exercise series is underway in Chennai, with the at-sea phase in the Bay of Bengal running from 14-17 July. This years iteration is notable for a number of reasons. While... → Read More
India's nuclear doctrine should no longer be taken for granted
In recent years, a debate over India’s nuclear doctrine – how and when it plans to use nuclear weapons – has rekindled. The issue was raised in the BJP’s 2014 manifesto, then by a couple of former heads of India’s Strategic Forces Command (SFC), and most recently by former defence minister Manohar Parrikar, all of whom urged changes to one or other aspect of India’s last published doctrine of… → Read More
Why Israel and the Arab nations are slowly drawing closer together
Meanwhile, spooks from each side have plotted in secret. The relationship is that of a mistress to a married man: one party eager for public acknowledgment, in hope of legitimising her questionable social status, the other desperate to keep it in the shadows for fear of the domestic consequences. Most Arab states risk popular fury if they were to normalise relations with Israel in the absence of… → Read More
Don't panic: Turkey shooting down a Russian warplane won't start World War 3
Russia and the West have many reasons to avoid conflict, but this incident still shows how dangerous the Syrian crisis is for the world → Read More
Is World War Three between China and the West inevitable?
It should be a strategic priority to nurture and strengthen the group of regional powers directly affected by Chinese behaviour → Read More
Future wars will need a more versatile response
British forces must be able to adapt if we are to meet the challenge from hostile states as well as insurgents → Read More
These worldwide terror attacks show Islamic State is capturing the jihadist market
Tragedies in France, Kuwait and Tunisia testify to aggressive expansion in North Africa and a strategy of exploiting sectarian divisions elsewhere → Read More
Are we on the cusp of a new nuclear weapons age?
As Iran edges towards a deal, which countries have nukes, which countries want them, and which are going to get them? → Read More
Mohammed Emwazi was not a fine young man driven to murder
Cage's claim that Jihadi John was pushed to violence would be funny if the charges were not so serious → Read More
Egypt wades deeper into the quicksand of Libya's civil war
It important to separate Isil’s role in Libya from the broader context of the country's civil war → Read More
Jordan's balancing act in the face of the Isil onslaught
The vulnerable kingdom has stayed afloat by making itself useful to every regional player - but now the war is at its doorstep, and latent tensions could prove treacherous → Read More
What the Paris shootings tell us about terror in 2015
The men who stormed the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine were brutal and heavily armed. But their mistakes, and the evidence they left behind, indicate the limits of this kind of attack → Read More